Bad meetings are often the result of having meetings to discuss things that could/should have been done in email before the meeting. Send out a meeting agenda s

Bad meetings are often the result of having meetings to discuss things that could/should have been done in email before the meeting. Send out a meeting agenda so people can come to the meeting with answers instead of being blindsided. Bad meeting: Sue: "Could you get me the figures for bugs-over-time?" Bob: "I'll have to get back to you on that." Good meeting: Sue: "Bob investigate our bugs-over-time metric. Can you share with us what you found out?" If you are asking a question in a meeting that could have been asked before the meeting just as easily, you're wasting expensive "meeting time".